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  • Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the Mask, Another Mask

    Defying history, this exhibition reveals crucial parallels between the surrealist Claude Cahun and contemporary artist Gillian Wearing, from the birth to the death of their manifold identities

  • Drawing Biennial 2017

    The eighth edition of the Drawing Biennial, which includes more than 200 works on paper, prompts a reflection both on the status of drawing today and the world around us

  • Marsden Hartley’s Maine

    Capping a series of pioneering shows at the Met Breuer that, force majeure, will serve as the new wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this insightful appraisal of Marsden Hartley as “the Painter from Maine” places the Yankee for…

  • After Industry

    This exhibition of works by Christer Karlstad, Willy Verginer and Jason DeMarte, fittingly staged in a former firehouse in Detroit’s Eastern Market district, explores the post-industrial condition

  • Jean Painlevé

    This is the first UK solo show for fascinating artist Jean Painlevé, who chronicled key moments in the lives of seahorses, snails and other marine animals, using novel technologies to reach microscopic scales

  • Architecture as Metaphor

    A mix of sculpture, tapestry, film, photography, painting and collage by 33 artists whose work refers to, or manipulates, the built environment, this exhibition heightens awareness of one’s own physical presence and the intensity – and complexity – of our…

  • Amelie von Wulffen: The Misjudged Bimpfi

    For her first solo exhibition in the UK, Amelie von Wulffen deals with themes of guilt, marginalisation, sexual fantasy and emotional trauma through an aesthetic influenced by historical genre painters – and a talking mushroom

  • A Painter’s Doubt

    In order to understand contemporary painting, curator Séamus Kealy presents the work of nine European artists, examining their work through the lens of phenomenology

  • The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945

    Featuring more than 40 architects, this exhibition traces 70 years of small-scale innovation to celebrate some of the most distinctive and significant projects to have been realised in Japan since the second world war

  • Whitney Biennial 2017

    America loves firsts, and, following a hiatus of three years, the once-unruly Whitney Biennial, currently curating what’s hottest in American art in its sleek, shiny, grown-up, new space, fits the bill

  • Prabhavathi Meppayil

    The Indian artist, brought up in a family of goldsmiths, adapts age-old techniques to make work that seems to bear witness and testimony to this family history and its artistic tradition

  • Michelangelo and Sebastiano

    This fascinating exhibition tells the story of two Renaissance greats and their unlikely collaboration

  • Tony Oursler: Imponderable

    This fascinating exhibition brings together some of the artist’s vast archive of ephemera concerning mysticism, the paranormal and the pseudo-scientific with an immersive film featuring Tony Oursler’s family, Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle, as viewers are forced to consider the…

  • Rik Wouters: A Retrospective

    More than 200 works mark the largest monographic exhibition to date devoted to Belgian modernist Rik Wouters. In a feast of colour and strong brush strokes, a collaboration of more than 30 museums, private collectors and cultural institutions, invite the…

  • Tuneu: Hexacordo

    This solo exhibition, which celebrates Tuneu’s 50 years as an artist, brings together his most recent work, with 23 new paintings as well as sculptures, all of which play with the possibilities of the hexagon

  • Colour is

    This group exhibition, including work by Josef Albers, David Annesley, Anthony Caro and Hélio Oiticica, provides an interesting survey of 1960s abstract art and its legacies, and suggests a few intriguing connections

  • The American Dream: Pop to the Present

    This exhibition pops and sparks, but ultimately goes out with a disappointing fizzle, leaving us to wonder what happened to the American dream

  • MOA Museum of Art: Grand Reopening Exhibition

    The museum reopens its doors after a renovation by artist Hiroshi Sugimoto that combines modern technology with ancient techniques, allowing visitors to see historical artworks in a setting similar to that in which they would originally have been viewed

  • Hello, Robot: Design Between Human and Machine

    This exhibition is a provocative, disturbing, poignant and ultimately telling exploration of the implications and complications arising from technology’s advancing role in human evolution

  • Edward Krasiński

    As mercurial as this master of the Polish avant-garde might seem, a career-wide survey revealed some persistent concerns while retaining much of the mystery

  • Armory Show 2017

    Manhattan’s storied art fair pushed back against a softening art market with strong work, mid-range sales and more than 65,000 visitors – the jury is out, though, on what was added by a new director’s ambitious overhaul

  • Deimantas Narkevičius: 20 July 2015

    In the Lithuanian artist’s latest exhibition, contrasting public reaction to the dismantling of communist public sculptures in his homeland are examined in two video works

  • All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

    In the 1960s, technological machines were seen as benign helpers or megalomaniac monsters. Fifty years on, at a time when technology permeates everything we do, this show looks at how it reframes the way we think

  • Mahmoud Bakhshi: ‘I was focusing on the people who died, and on an artist doing something, which then has an effect that is a problem’

    Turning the gallery at narrative projects, London, into a 1970s cinema, Bakhshi places his audience at the centre of two pivotal – and parallel – events in recent Iranian history